PHRENITIS

encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis

(noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phrenitis’ is no longer in scientific use)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

phrenitis (countable and uncountable, plural phrenitides)

(historical, medicine) Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.

Anagrams

• Pinterish, inspireth, nephritis

Source: Wiktionary


Phre*ni"tis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.

1. (Med.)

Definition: Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.

2. See Frenzy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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